As many of you know, I’ve been offering Chanson-O-Grammes (affordable custom love song commissions) once a year to fans near and far since February 2013. They honour family members, romantic interests, friends, newborns, pets, partners, husbands, wives, and on one occasion, a spirit. From quirky to romantic and in various styles/instrumentation, Chanson-O-Gramme’s are a unique way to celebrate someone special! Here are some of the E-Cards sent along with MP3’s dating back to the inaugural 2013 edition. 🙂

I enjoy cycles of 7 so this will be the final year I’ll be upholding this tradition. The first 7 people to order between Jan 14-Feb 7th will receive a special bonus card (by snailmail) commemorating this lucky 7 year! Write to *kristamuir*at*gmail*dot*com to find out how to order yours today! Here are several songs (approved to share) from the 2014 edition. For this final 2019 edition the cost is sliding scale $125-175. Click here and scroll down to read some testimonials.

MARCH & APRIL:

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be heading to the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity this March for the Singer Songwriter Residency! If/when we are presenting new works at the Centre/that are open to the public I’ll post them on fb/twitter/instagram. And as I haven’t played Calgary since 2005 (!), I’ll be performing on March 24th (venue TBC) for those who’d like to hear The Tides live!

Just in time for the holiday season! We found the original masters for the first Lederhosen Lucil album that was released in 1999 exclusively on cassette. Now available only on our bandcamp! We’ve included anecdotal liner notes that describe the inspiration for the songs and if you buy a copy for $7 or more LL will send you an autographed photo from the photo archives (see pic below!). FUN!

The film will screen for a second time at the 31st edition of Image+Nation as part of the Queerment Québec short film series at the Centre PHI on Monday, November 26th. Director/Producer in attendance to meet audience/take questions afterwards.

More than 300 publishers and self-publishing authors and artists from Montreal and elsewhere will be gathering this year! Expozine is a diverse and dynamic book fair that immerses thousands of visitors in a thriving new culture of the printed page.

Tanya Davis, Jordan Perry and I have been invited to speak to our experience in the realm of Songwriting-Composing. I’ll be presenting a playful history of my song writing career to date including highlights as a Digital Storyteller and Songwriter-for-hire (unique Chanson-O-Gramme service) and then invite the audience to play the Songwriting Machine game! OUI! (Présentation en Anglais mais Q&A/participation bilingue)